Notre-Dame de Paris: A French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo

This Victor Hugo historical novel set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol the cathedral of Notre-Dame is the haunting drama of Quasimodo the hunchback; Esmeralda the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugos brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description.